Starr Pass

The desert target golf here demands precision over pure distance, with elevated tees launching balls into narrow fairways carved between towering saguaros and unforgiving desert floor. Arnold Palmer's routing through the Tucson Mountains creates dramatic elevation changes that reward course management, particularly on the signature downhill par-3 15th that plays 200 feet below the tee. This isn't grip-it-and-rip-it Sonoran Desert golf—miss the short grass and your scorecard suffers as much as your ego.